A little nostalgic trip down memory lane.

In an era of cloud storage, AI copilots, and real-time GPS updates on your phone, it sounds absurd that some commercial airplanes still rely on floppy disks—yes, those 3.5-inch plastic squares ...

These stores typically have used 3.5-inch floppy disks for sale, and you can expect to pay around $0.25 per disk. No more than $0.50 each, else you’re being ripped off. Fredy Jacob / Unsplash ...

You absolutely could not expect a floppy disk from one type of computer to work ... Oh the wonders of all that storage space on a 720kb floppy, and then the mindblowing excess of the 1.44Mb ...

Those disks initially had 80 kilobytes of storage space, and were introduced in 1971 as an alternative to the punch cards used in large mainframe computers. Later versions offered 1.2 megabytes of ...

Yes, we are talking about Floppy Disk in 2024. This output storage technology was used in various parts of the world- from America to India in the 1990s.

In 2009, Sony had a 70% share of the Japanese domestic floppy disk market, which amounted to about 12 million disks in total — with a combined capacity of just 17 terabytes.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

Its popularity lasted well into the 1990s, solidifying the floppy disk's position as a ubiquitous storage medium. This design started with 720KB of storage, but its most popular version held 1.44MB.